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The Family Upstairs (The Family Upstairs, #1)

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My Heart and Other Black Holes

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Every Summer After

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“It’s incredible what our minds will do to survive.”
― Robin Roe, Dark Room Etiquette

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“There comes a point when you realize that you can never make someone like you, or even stop hating you, and the only defense you have left is the ultimate one--not giving a shit anymore.”
― Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days

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“It's all right if you can't remember. Our subconscious is spectacularly agile. Sometimes it knows when to take us away, as a kind of protection.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

tags: memory, memory-loss, mind

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“For the most part, you don't hold the people you love in your heart because they rescued you from drowning or pulled you from a burning house. Mostly you hold them in your heart because they save you, in a million quiet and perfect ways, from being alone.”
― Jeff Zentner, Goodbye Days

tags: goodbye-days, grief

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“I think your mind can stay trapped even when your body is free.”
― Robin Roe, Dark Room Etiquette

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